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NAACP Asks Candidates To
Put ‘ln Writing’ Their Stance
On Minorities
The Atlanta and State
NAACP have asked all
candidates for governor and
lieutenant governor to state
‘‘in writing” their support
for increased minority
representation in the
Georgia General Assembly
and the U.S. House of
Representatives.
In letters to announced
and rumored candidates for
the state’s two top elected
positions, Atlanta NAACP
President Julian Bond and
Robert Flanagan, president
of the Georgia Conference
ot NAACP branches, asked
for written statements
supporting an increase in
Black state senators and
SCLC Says Blacks Must Initiate New
Moral Movement To Save The Nation
With the theme,
“Toward A Positive Black
Future: Countering The
Assault On Black life,” the
Southern Christian
Leadership Conference
(SCLC) held its 24th Annual
Convention in New Orleans
in August.
It was a homecoming
for the veteran civil rights
organization, which
conducted its first
organizational meeting
there in 1957.
The convention was the
backdrop for serious
discussions of domestic and
international problems
among well informed
program participants and
SCLC leaders, who
collectively agreed that the
time for movement is now
and that "Black people as a
race must be the leaders in
redeeming the soul erf an
America gone astray...if
world peace is to be
realized.”
The Black movement is
really a "coming together
as a Black family,” SCLC
leaders articulated
throughout the convention,
and as a family,
conventioneers drafted a
national agenda that
includes preserving and
maximizing the services of
Black institutions like the
church and educational
institutions; protecting
hard-earned rights like
voting and the small
measures of equality in
opportunity realized
through forceful affirmative
action programs; and
persistent demands to
private businesses' and
corporations for equitable
A two day College
Placement Service
Workshop on test taking
skills is scheduled for
September 15-16, beginning
at 9 a.m., in the Paine
College odeum.
The workshop is for
Paine faculty and interested
high school and junior high
school counselors. Material
Ceramic Show Scheduled
The Richmond County
Recreation and Parks
Department will hold their
Annual Ceramic Show,
Sept. 26 at the Barbecue
Building on Milledge Road,
11 a.nj. - 5 p.m.
Registration will be
held Friday, Sept. 25th
from 11 a.m. until 6 p.m.
September is the
month for Aerobic Dance
and Jazz to begin at
Bernie Ward Community
Center.
Registration is
required for all programs.
For more information
contact the center at 790-
0468.
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The Able-Disabled will
meet Tuesday, Sept. 15 at
7:30 p.m. at the Georgia
War Veterans Nursing
Home, 1101 15th St.
Donald Wargowski,
Representatives, and the
creaton of a majority Black
Congressional District in
the Metropolitan Atlanta
area.
“No response,” Bond
and Flanagan said, “will
be considered a rejection of
this goal.”
The letter comes as
both houses of the state
legislature move toward
final approval of
reapportionment plans for
state and federal
lawmakers.
‘‘Although the
election is more than a year
away,” Bond said, “We
feel that Georgians have a
right to know where the
economic re-investment in
Black communities that add
to their profits.
SCLC President Joseph
E. Lowery said this
emphasis on equitable
reinvestment in the Black
community will be the top
priority of the organization
throughout the rest of the
decade. Efforts to achieve
equitable re-investment will
be carried out by the newly
reinstated "Operation
Breadbasket” project.
Operated chiefly by
Black clergy. Breadbasket
will function on the local,
regional and national levels
and serve as watchdog and
reporter of affirmative
action practices by private
businesses and corporations
as they relate to economic
prosperity and re
investment in the Black
community.
In the world picture,
SCLC finds that poor and
oppressed people are
assaulted politically,
economically, socially and
physically; and concludes
that the victims of these
assaults must be the
initiators of change.
In the most powerful
nation on earth where
military might is thought to
be the solution to political,
economic and social
programs, world survival
becomes increasingly
critical, SCLC observes.
U.S. Congressman
William Gray, one of four
members of the
Congressional Black Caucus
(CBC) who addressed the
convention, warned that
“the United States has
Workshop To Be
Held At Paine
to be covered includes ways
to adequately prepare
students for standardized
tests, ways to alleviate
student fear of tests and
how to help students
analyze test questions.
Plans are being made
to hold a student workshop
and a communitywide
workshop on the same
material later this fall.
All hobbyists are invited
to participate.
All professionals are
invited to exhibit their
work, but will not be
judged.
Call the Richmond
County Recreation
Department for additional
information 798-3750.
Dance And Jazz
At Ward Center
Fall programs include
swimming lessons, aerobic
belly dancing, small fry
craft and fun-hour, junior
golf, and much more fun.
The following clubs will
also be forming at the
center amaterur wrestling
club, Karate club, and
table tennis club.
Judge To Speak
To Able-Disabled
retired judge from Onto
now residing in Aiken, will
tell his story, “One
Cripple’s Life” He will
also provide musical
entertainment.
candidates stand on this
important question.”
The letter was sent to
gubernatorial candidate Joe
Frank Harris, Bo Ginn,
Jack Watson, Bob Bell, Ben
Blackburn, Roscoe Dean,
Billy Lovett, Buck Melton,
J. Roy Rowland, Norman
Underwood, and Joe Smith
Smith is the only
announced candidate for
lieutenant governor.
“Their answers - or
lack of answers - will be
made public in time for
voters to determine if these
candidates support fair
representation or not,”
Bond said
eliminated human rights
from its foreign policy,”
and he advised that the
CBC is beginning to
establish its own contacts
with world leaders,
particularly in the Middle
East.
Also joining Cong.
Gary in denouncing current
U.S. policies were
Congressmen Charles
Rangel, Harold Washington
and CBC Chairperson
Walter E. Fauntroy.
Fauntroy, who is also
chairman of the board for
SCLC, talked about what he
views as an attempt “by
the powers that be, to
neutralize the voting
power” now enjoyed by
Blacks and other minorities,
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1965 Voting Rights Act, or
its weakening.
It was the consensus of
the convention that the Act
must be extended beyond
its expiration date in
August of 1982 to ensure
that Black and poor people
continue to elect public
officials who are
representative of their
interests and needs.
Another high-ranking
concern of the SCLC
during the decade of the
1980 s is involving youth in
the movement and training
them for leadership roles in
world affairs as well as in
domestic matters.
Uniting with SCLC in
expressing the importance
erf youth involvement in the
movement and immediate
implementation of the
agenda drafted was the
King Family. Mrs. Coretta
Scott King and son Martin
Luther King HI addressed
the convention.
Marty King, who
addressed the youth rally
on the final day of the
convention, focused on
youth participation and
stated with certainty that
"youth can make a
difference.” He cited the
important role youths
played in the civil rights
movement during the
19605. As demonstrators,
youths accounted for large
numbers of Blacks
participating in marches
and rallies that often led to
jailings and nationwide
attention.
Shirley Chisholm
Condemns Reagan On
Affirmative Action
Congresswoman Shirley
Chisholm (D-New York)
condemned the Reagan
Administration’s attack on
Affirmative action
requirements for companies
doing work for the federal
government.
"Unfortunately for
millions erf minority and
women workers still
experiencing employment
discrimination in this
country,” she asserted,
“President Reagan has
called for the elimination of
key components of the
affirmative action program
run by the U.S. Labor
Department's Office of
Federal Contract
Compliance. New proposed
regulations would exempt
all but the largest federal
contractors from affirmative
action requirements, and
would weaken hiring,
promoting and reporting
requirements for those
which remain covered.
“With a jackhammer
repetition of the ‘quot’
buzzword, the
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Administration is pounding
ouf the familiar arguments
against government efforts
to advance minorities and
women into careers that
have traditionally been
reserved for white men.
However, they wrongly, in
my view, equate the terms
‘quotas' and ‘goals,’ and
ca.. apparently discern no
difference between the
former, which establishes
an inflexible ceiling on
applicants, and the latter
which seeks to create a
floor for those who have
been held down by
discriminatory attitudes
among employers.
“Nobody, I am sure,
wants to mandate a ceiling
to hold down career
advancement. Everybody, I
hope, would support a floor
to further the attainment of
equality of opportunity in
our society,” she said.
“The ‘floors,’ the
'goals,' is the language and
the intent of the existing
Labor Department
regulations. It is ironic that.
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as effective enforcement of
these regulations is being
seen, and as increasing
numbers of women and
minorities are finding
employment for the first
time in various skilled and
professional occupations, a
major is being
proposed. This is not fair to
the victims of continuing
employment discrimination,
nor is it fair to taxpayers
whose money would flow to
federal contractors hiring
and promoting only white
males.”
“Nowhere from this
Administration,’'
Representative Chisholm
concluded, “have I heard
any new suggestions for
bringing equal access to
America's workplaces. It
has been obvious since
before the Civil War that
racism and sexism will not
fade away unassisted.
Until someone can bring
forward a better alternative,
we should stay with the
affirmative action plan that
is in place and is
working '